2019-8-20 23:35 |
Horizon State, an Australian-based blockchain voting platform, has shut down after a lawsuit brought against the firm, which has resulted in mounting legal costs.
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A group of investors has filed a complaint against Ripple with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for dumping illegal securities on investors in the token, as reported by Forbes, August 18, 2019.
2019-8-19 15:00 | |
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The Bitcoin hype may have died down, but the tech behind it definitely hasn’t. With Bitcoin’s price on the rise again, and with major companies adopting and experimenting with blockchain, the way we do business, make payments, and perceive the value of money is about to change.
2019-8-14 18:12 | |
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Venture-as-a-Stack focused firm, Outlier Ventures has recently released a report which depicts the rise in blockchain investments. The report further broke down matters in terms of the key focuses, how things have changed now compared to 2013, and different stages of financing to name a few.
2019-8-14 17:25 | |
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Colu has announced that it is discontinuing its blockchain platform, and is allowing investors to sell back their tokens for Ether
2019-8-13 01:15 | |
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The retail giant Overstock just released the newest data on its financial results for the second quarter of 2019 and the results are not as good as they were hoping for. According to them, their revenue decreased 23% and gross profit went down by 19%.
2019-8-10 03:22 | |
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The growth of fintech’s market share is putting real pressure on traditional banks to revise their business model. Cashless transactions are witnessing new all-time highs while banks cut down on ATM units and local branches.
2019-8-5 21:00 | |
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Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and info to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. Earlier this year, Bitcoin was setting records for 12-month price highs.
2019-8-5 17:00 | |
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The director of the CFTC's experimental fintech initiative will step down in mid-August to pursue work in the private sector.
2019-8-3 22:35 | |
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Sound the alarm, bang the gong, yodel down an Austrian valley; as of yesterday over 85-percent of the total Bitcoin supply has been mined. But seriously, there’s no need to worry. According to various Bitcoin blockchain explorers and market information websites, over 17,850,000 Bitcoin (17,850,600 according to CoinMarketCap) have been mined and are classed as being “in circulation.
2019-8-1 12:39 | |
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The San Francisco-based blockchain startup Ripple called on the US Congress to create a friendly cryptocurrency regulation that would not restrain its development. This week US Senate will hold hearings dedicated to this issue.
2019-7-30 18:38 | |
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Ripple (XRP) is down 7. 4 percent from last week’s close Kenny Li, the CEO of Worthyt, said people are willing to trade the security of decentralization for speed and convenience Ripple Price Analysis Fundamentals Blockchain is altering the way payments are done.
2019-7-29 21:00 | |
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The total crypto market cap has lost $9. 2 billion of its value since Monday, July 12, and dropped down to $278. 2 billion. The top ten coins are all in green for the last 24 hours with Bitcoin SV (BSV) and EOS (EOS) being the biggest gainers with 39 and 19 percent of price increase respectively.
2019-7-25 11:02 | |
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A proposal on Ethereum put forth by James Hancock has been shot down by the community. The proposal aimed to temporarily inflate supply by adding a . 0055 ETH reward in each block that would be routed to an independent developers fund, which would then be used to carry out necessary development on Ethereum 1.
2019-7-25 09:00 | |
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The XRP ecosystem has been working towards developing the means to increase the coin’s use cases. In an effort to do the same, IndImm, announced the beta release of a messaging protocol on top of Ripple’s blockchain.
2019-7-24 17:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency and blockchain were built to usurp centralized authorities like governments and banks. And then came Ripple, a corporate and institutional reimagining of what a digital currency should be and do.
2019-7-24 17:00 | |
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We sat down with Zilliqa President and Chief Scientific Officer to get his thoughts on the state of decentralized applications and learn more about Zilliqa. The post Amrit Kumar on Smart Contract Security, Blockchain Sentiment, and the Future of Zilliqa appeared first on CoinCentral.
2019-7-23 22:08 | |
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An Indian inter-ministerial committee on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology has finalized a report recommending both the establishment of a digital Rupee and a ban of cryptocurrencies. Ban Crypto, Establish E-Rupee The roughly 200-page report spends thousands of words breaking down and praising the potential uses of blockchain technology, specifically in areas like land management.
2019-7-22 18:38 | |
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Cryptokart, an India-based cryptocurrency exchange is now among several other bitcoin trading venues in the South Asian country that have closed their doors due to regulatory uncertainties and lack of interest on the part of consumers, reports New Indian Express on July 20, 2019.
2019-7-22 09:00 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceBaseFEX, a cryptocurrency perpetual contract exchange, today announced it will take down 7 crypto perpetual contracts. BaseFEX has decided to put more focus on the liquidity for a few contracts of major cryptos.
2019-7-19 23:19 | |
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Joel Telpner, chair of the Fintech and Blockchain Practice Group at Sullivan & Worcester LLP, sees Libra's creation as setting a fascinating - and treacherous - precedent.
2019-7-19 20:00 | |
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With its price down 55% since January 1st, WAVES has performed poorly in 2019. While technicals remain bearish, the release of the new programming language RIDE is sparking some positivity for the blockchain, with the hope its release will drive gains during the second half of the year.
2019-7-18 15:00 | |
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The total crypto market cap lost another $25 billion of its value since Monday, July 15, and dropped down to $264. 5 billion. The top ten coins are mostly in green for the last 24 hours with most of them registering double-digit gains.
2019-7-18 11:00 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceRing Network, which before rebranding started out as TrustNote, a project developing a MimbleWimble implementation of a DAG-based distributed ledger system, today announced “that after careful deliberation it made a tough operational judgment call about the proposed upcoming mainnet changes and has decided to pause the work being done to bring the Ring Network testnet […]https://www.
2019-7-16 08:55 | |
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Bitpoint, a Japan-based Bitcoin trading venue that suffered a 3. 5 billion yen ($32 million) heist last week, has reportedly found over 250 million yen ($2. 3 million) of the stolen digital assets, bringing down the total sum of lost cryptocurrencies to $28 million, reports local news source, The Mainichi on July 14, 2019.
2019-7-16 23:00 | |
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Tron (TRX) slides 29. 1 percent week-to-date The launch of TronClass will aid in Tron’s global reach and general awareness For their global outreach, the launch of TronClass is beneficial for the cryptocurrency and blockchain space as a whole.
2019-7-15 22:00 | |
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Munroe College in Manhattan has been hit by a ransomware attack that has shut down the college’s computer systems. The hackers are demanding 170 bitcoin (BTC), which is roughly $1. 9 million. The malware infection came to light on the morning of July 10, but the specifications of the infection are still largely unknown, as reportedRead MoreRead More.
2019-7-15 13:00 | |
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0x, an open protocol that enabled the peer-to-peer exchange of assets on the Ethereum blockchain, shut down their v2 Exchange due to a flaw in its Exchange contract which was identified by a third-party security researcher Sam Sun.
2019-7-14 16:00 | |
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Angry South African investors who lost millions of dollars in the now-defunct Bitcoin Ponzi scheme called “Bitcoin Wallets” have looted and burned down the house of Sphelele Sgumza Mbatha, the operator of the scam project, reports the Verge on July 12, 2019.
2019-7-13 21:00 | |
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The total crypto market cap lost $18 billion of its value since July 8, 2019, and dropped down to $311. 3 billion. The top ten coins are all in the red for the last 24 hours with many registering double-digit losses.
2019-7-11 11:00 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) under pressure, down 8. 1 percent Q1-2 2019 marked the end of the crypto winter There is growth and Bitcoin ecosystem is improving. Corporations are sinking millions toward blockchain infrastructure development.
2019-7-7 19:00 | |
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Monero (XMR) is down 7. 6 percent week-to-date The privacy-centric network prone to developer centralization In their quest for complete decentralization, Monero, as a blockchain network, has suffered massive drops in hash rate.
2019-7-5 21:00 | |
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After a statewide sweep in December 2017, Texas’ securities regulator will begin a second sweep of the entire state to find and shut down any illegitimate cryptocurrency schemes run by unlicensed companies and individuals, as reported by CrowdFund Insider, on July 4, 2019.
2019-7-6 15:00 | |
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Ripple’s Global Head of Banking, Marjan Delatinne, spoke at the Global Blockchain Summit, addressing some of the most sought out questions by people in the crypto community. As reported by GTR, Delatinne said that the most significant development for Ripple happened last week, which was the partnership with MoneyGram.
2019-7-4 16:00 | |
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With price the price of bitcoin (BTC) going as high as $13,900 before crashing to $9,900 within the span of a few days, Jeff Dorman, the CIO of Arca, believes the case for a Bitcoin ETF has become much weaker as regulators watch the massive price swings, reported by Bloomberg, July 2, 2019.
2019-7-4 23:00 | |
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Stellar has had a busy year so far. The blockchain project has established several new partnerships, suffered a troubling network outage and is soon expected to roll out a new developer-focused website.
2019-7-3 21:26 | |
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The largest food company by revenue has doubled down on blockchain pilots.
2019-7-2 22:30 | |
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A few weeks ago, Circle co-founders Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville sat down with Michael Casey at the CB Insights “Future of Fintech” conference. They covered a lot in their 20 minute conversation.
2019-6-29 22:03 | |
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Bitcoin ATMs around the world continue to grow and show no signs of slowing down just yet. According to CoinATMRadar, a platform that monitors the growth of cryptocurrency ATMs worldwide, the number of Bitcoin ATMs globally has surpassed the 5,000 milestone.
2019-6-27 19:00 | |
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Stablecoins were once touted by some as a fix for cryptocurrency’s volatility. Thing is, it seems they’re not as stable as their name would suggest. Most of the stablecoin projects announced since 2017 are still yet to launch, and two-thirds of stablecoin projects that have failed were backed by gold.
2019-6-27 17:33 | |
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2019-6-26 19:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Blockchain payment company Ripple on Monday announced that it is going to buy up to $50 million worth of stakes in MoneyGram, the second largest money transfer service in the world.
2019-6-18 15:35 | |
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Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey has expressed his belief that Bitcoin will become the “native currency of the Internet” on multiple occasions. Recently, Dorsey sat down with Quartz and spoke about the cryptocurrency markets, and what to expect in the future for the blockchain industry.
2019-6-15 07:22 | |
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Ripple’s CTO, David Schwartz, spoke at Future Fintech and outlined his ideas and views about how digital assets and blockchain technology are trying to make payments efficient by getting get rid of traditional systems and intermediaries.
2019-6-13 15:30 | |
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Weiss Ratings has downgraded their rating for EOS, citing concerns about centralization and the project’s lack of capability to fix these systemic issues, June 7, 2019. Cracking Down on EOS EOS has been the subject of intense debates within the crypto community.
2019-6-11 09:00 | |
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The total crypto market cap is $31. 2 billion down for the seven-day period and now stands at $245. 4 billion. The top ten cryptocurrencies are all in red for the same time frame with Litecoin (LTC) being the only exception.
2019-6-10 11:00 | |
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Woes for EOS seem far from cooling down. The latest announcement from Block. one, EOS’s parent company failed to turn the tide up for the digital asset. Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of Cardano and Ethereum Classic blockchain, said that the much-anticipated EOS announcement was a “flop”.
2019-6-10 21:38 | |
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Coinspeaker 9 Key Tools and Technologies to Develop and Test Blockchain ApplicationsThere are dozens of high-quality blockchain services that you can try, but we want to narrow down the options and focus on the most relevant solutions only.
2019-6-9 12:07 | |
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David Schwartz, the CTO of Ripple explained the need for a complete restructuring of payments and how blockchain and purpose-built technology will help enforce it during ‘We are Developers’ conference in Berlin on June 8.
2019-6-9 03:30 | |
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"On the blockchain nothing disappears." Users left hunting for clues when Polish exchange abruptly shuts down.
2019-6-9 19:00 | |
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Neil Walsh, chief of the cybercrime and anti-money laundering arm of the United Nations' department on drugs and crime, has stated that the "anonymizing and pseudo-anonymizing" aspects of cryptocurrencies have made it extremely difficult to combat terrorist financing, money laundering, and cybercrime.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled with crypto exchange Bitqyck and its founders Bruce Bise and Sam Mendez over what the SEC believed was an unregistered token sale that raised $13 million.
Yesterday, August 28, Paige Thompson was indicted after allegedly hacking Capital One and 30 other entities. Along with being charged with wire fraud and computer fraud and abuse, court documents state Thompson used Capital One's cloud servers to mine cryptocurrency.
Federal court has entered case-ending sanctions against Craig Wright in the long-running court battle between Wright and the estate of his deceased developer partner, Dave Kleiman. Judge Bruce E.
The Central Bank of Brazil has adopted the International Monetary Fund's crypto classification guidelines, meaning traded cryptocurrencies within the country will be classified as non-financial products and, as such, will be counted as goods on the central bank’s balance sheet.
Westwood, California, resident Kunal Kalra has pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange and ATM. Kalra allegedly took part in $25 million worth of trading without obtaining a money-remitting business license or implementing any anti-money laundering processes.
Last week, six members from the US House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee met with Swiss regulators, including the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner and the Financial Market Supervisory Authority, to discuss Facebook's Libra project.